Very informative. Thanks Josh.

Regard's

Brian Ngure

On 9 Sep 2011 07:04, "Josh Handley" <josh@bridgeinternationalacademies.com> wrote:
> The stock Android apps are stored in /system/app instead of /data/app
> where your installed apps are stored. /system is a read-only partition
> so in order to remove anything from it you will need root on the phone
> in order to remount it as writeable. That said you would only need
> temporary root access. Most people root their Android phones by getting
> temporary root access and flashing a custom recovery image and ROM so
> that have permanent root access. It also possible to get root access
> once, make whatever changes you need and then reboot the phone and no
> longer have root. This can be done on the Idiot with a number of
> different exploits that you can find via Google such as psneuter or
> rageagainstthecage. You basically copy the exploit to your phone using
> ADB and then run it and then you log into the phone with ADB shell as
> root. With root you can remount the /system partition as writeable
> using ADB remount.
>
> I have gotten as far as removing some of the stock apps from the phone
> this way. Once the system partition is writeable you can delete apps
> from the phone using ADB shell by deleting the .apk and .odex files
> (e.g. rm /system/app/GenieWidget.apk). I did this just to reduce the
> amount of stuff in the app tray so I haven't tried to reinstall them on
> the SD card. It might be possible instead to copy to the apps you want
> to remove to your PC using ADB pull, then delete them from the phone as
> above and finally reinstall them after setting the install location to
> the SD card using pm. I'm not sure that this would work but you never know.
>
> Even if it does work, I'm not sure it would actually you save you any
> space on your phone since /system is separate partition from /data and
> /data is probably where you are running out of space. To take advantage
> of the space freed up by deleting the apps you would have to repartition
> the phone to reduce the size of /system and increase the size of /data
> which I think would be quite a challenge and probably quite risky.
>
> WARNING: any time you try to hack your phone like this you risk really
> messing it up so be careful and don't blame me if something goes wrong.
> If you do get into trouble you can always restore your phone to its
> original factory state by downloading the firmware image and
> reinstalling it from the SD card. You can get the original Safaricom
> firmware from
> http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Huawei_U8150_IDEOS. However
> this will wipe all your data from the phone.
>
> Josh
>
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